"The Institute's first Academic Convocation and its first Commencement were landmarks of such significance in its history and to graduate education generally that we are devoting this issue of the Quarterly to them" --Charles I. Campbell, editor

It is intended that there should be six issues of this publication during 1963, the first of them to appear at the beginning of February. There will also be some changes in both format and content, principally so that future issues may be s more topical record of events at the Institute, and a more faithful reflection of the activities of its members. Loyal readers need not fear that they will fail to recognize the refurbished journal